The man page section 2 says that only super-user can access mknod(). Is there any other funtion that does what mknod() does? Our system doesn't have fifo(). /etc/mknod is not accessable by users. Too bad, I can't even do a system("/etc/mknod ....") call. Any suggestions? -Quang (quang at csufres.CSUFresno.EDU)